Thinking outside the box: alternatives to standard inpatient mental health care

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Red arrow stands out from the others and changes direction to go out of order. Thinking outside the box. New strategies and solutions. Atypical, leadership qualities. Denial of conformism.

Amber Jarvis summarises a new typology of alternatives to standard inpatient care produced by the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Mental Health, which suggests there are multiple alternatives to ‘traditional’ inpatient mental health care, which planners and commissioners should consider.

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Can social recovery therapy improve social disability in young people?

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In her debut blog, Jude Madani summarises the findings of the PRODIGY trial, which looked at the clinical and cost-effectiveness of social recovery therapy for the prevention and treatment of long-term social disability among young people with emerging severe mental illness.

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